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11:05 AM ET, June 6, 2006

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Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Privately Funded Trips Add Up on Capitol Hill  —  Over 5 1/2 years, Republican and Democratic lawmakers accepted nearly $50 million in trips, often to resorts and exclusive locales, from corporations and groups seeking legislative favors, according to the most comprehensive study to date on the subject of congressional travel.
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Kate Phillips / New York Times:
Trip Study Finds More Was Spent on Aides Than Lawmakers
Discussion: Wonkette
Baltimore Examiner:   Big government spawns congressional junkets
BBC:
Peruvians elect Garcia president  —  With most of the votes counted in the second round of Peru's election, it has become clear that ex-president Alan Garcia has won a convincing victory.  —  Mr Garcia polled 53.1% of ballots to 46.9 % for nationalist rival Ollanta Humala, with 93% of votes counted.
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Juan Forero / New York Times:
Ex-President Wins in Peru in Stunning Comeback  —  LIMA, Peru, June 4 — Sixteen years after his presidency ended in economic collapse and heightened guerrilla violence, Alan García was elected president again on Sunday, completing one of Latin America's most astonishing political resurrections.
Toronto Star:
The ties that bind 17 suspects?  —  SURYA BHATTACHARYA, NASREEN GULAMHUSEIN AND HEBA ALY  —  In investigators' offices, an intricate graph plotting the links between the 17 men and teens charged with being members of a homegrown terrorist cell covers at least one wall.
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Amir Taheri / Commentary:
The Real Iraq  —  Spending time in the United States after a tour of Iraq can be a disorienting experience these days.  Within hours of arriving here, as I can attest from a recent visit, one is confronted with an image of Iraq that is unrecognizable.  It is created in several overlapping ways …
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Ken Silverstein / Harper's:
Creating the Inevitable  —  The CIA visits Iraq in April 2002
David Braithwaite / Sydney Morning Herald:
666 sucks sucks sucks  —  With its devilish "666" date-stamp, today should be hell, but if you crunch the numbers it's apparently more about hugs than human sacrifice.  —  For those of an apocalyptic bent, the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year is the ideal date for an anti-Christ …
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Washington Post:
In Brazen Roundup, 56 Vanish From Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, June 5 — "Turn back," a friend told Haji Abu Shamaa as he walked Monday morning toward his money-changing shop in the Karkh neighborhood of central Baghdad, a mile north of the heavily guarded Green Zone.  "The Interior Ministry police are rounding up people."
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Los Angeles Times:
No Escaping Iraq Violence
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Court to Weigh Race as Factor in School Rolls  —  WASHINGTON, June 5 — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to rule on what measures, if any, public school systems may use to maintain racial balance in individual schools.  —  The eventual decision on whether they can take race into account …
Jane Williams / NEWS.com.au:
Devil's date creates infernal jitters  —  THE calendar has clicked over to the sixth day of the sixth month, 2006 and hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - the fear of the number 666 - is taking hold.  —  Will the world end?  Will someone give birth to the antichrist?  Will Satan reclaim control?
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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Agence France Presse:
Dutch Evangelicals calls for pray-in against the Devil
Discussion: Preemptive Karma
David Harsanyi / Denver Post:
Chill out over global warming  —  You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.  —  Why not give it a whirl?  —  Start by challenging global warming hysteria next time you're at a LoDo cocktail party and see what happens.  —  Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science.
Opinion Journal:
Fitzgerald, Scooter and Us  —  The special prosecutor wants to use our editorial as evidence.  Sorry. … Those words appeared in this column on July 17, 2003, under the headline "Yellowcake Remix."  Three years later they show we were right about Joe Wilson and his false allegation …
Pete Winn / family.org:
Bush Throws Support to Marriage Amendment; Senate Debate Begins  —  President Bush spoke today in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) as debate began on the Senate floor for the second time in two years — with a vote to come this week.  —  In brief remarks at the White House …
Times of London:
The wrong target  —  Terrorism, not America, is a real and present threat to our freedoms  —  Al-Haditha, a town on the Euphrates northwest of Baghdad, is still a place where fighters blend into the populace and literally use civilians as cover.  Coalition forces may shoot only when threatened …
Discussion: Harry's Place and PrairiePundit
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The 10 Most Dangerous Democratic Candidates In 2008  —  Just for the fun of it, I decided to put together a list of the Democratic candidates who'd have the best chance to beat a GOP nominee in 2008.  This list is based purely on electability, not on the likelihood the candidate will take the nomination.
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
U.S. Is Offering Deals on Trade to Entice Iran  —  WASHINGTON, June 5 — The European Union's foreign policy director, Javier Solana, arrived in Tehran on Monday night with incentives intended to resolve the nuclear crisis with Iran, including a proposal to allow Iran to upgrade …
David Feige / New York Times:
Witnessing Guilt, Ignoring Innocence?  —  THE police lineup — in which the anxious eyewitness casts an accusing gaze on a string of sullen men (or women) on the other side of one-way glass — is as much a staple of actual law enforcement as it is of "C.S.I." and "Law & Order."  It is also highly flawed.
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Iraqis Believe Violence Will Abate, New Report Says  —  Pentagon Finds Hope Is Tied to New Government  —  Attacks and casualty levels against civilians and military personnel in Iraq have risen "substantially" since the December elections, but Iraqis have confidence the new Baghdad government …
Discussion: Think Progress and Rantingprofs
 
 
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Curt Anderson / Associated Press:
Padilla Lawyer Wants Key Evidence Tossed
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Inside the Cult of Kos
Discussion: The Sundries Shack
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
And the Band Played On...  When I was in junior high and high school …
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Scooptwords goes live!
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Conservatives Watching Senate Debate on Gay Marriage
John F. Burns / New York Times:
Getting Used to War as Hell
CBS News:
Another Terrorist Attack Coming Soon?
Discussion: Stop The ACLU
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Iraqis Accuse Marines in April Killing Of Civilian
Edward M. Kennedy / Boston Herald:
GOP says 'I do' to bigotry...  It's no wonder that the American people …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
House at Stake, Midterm Election Gets Early Start
Discussion: Bring it On!
Guardian:
Intelligence behind raid was wrong, officials say
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Lieberman faces showdown over Iraq
 

 
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